Crime Statistics for Truro, Cornwall, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Truro in August 2024. There were a total of 657 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	216
Violent Crime	166
Shoplifting	72
Criminal Damage Arson	64
Other Theft	40
Public Order	40
Drugs	12
Possession Of Weapons	12
Burglary	8
Theft From The Person	8
Robbery	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Other Crime	3
All Crime	657

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Truro. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Truro

We've taken the ten nearest places to Truro and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Truro has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Truro	327
Kenwyn (0.62 miles)	187
New Mill (1.39 miles)	115
Highertown (1.24 miles)	62
Newbridge (1.86 miles)	35
Calenick (0.62 miles)	21
Idless (1.86 miles)	14
Playing Place (1.96 miles)	8
Porth Kea (1.24 miles)	6
Kea (1.75 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Truro?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Truro and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Truro	166
New Mill	71
Kenwyn	55
Newbridge	49
Highertown	44
Calenick	8
Idless	5
Playing Place	3
Kea	2
Porth Kea	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Truro?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Truro to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Truro compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Truro and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Truro is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Truro Tregolls	32
2	Perranporth	30
3	Truro Trehaverne	26
4	Truro Boscawen	26
5	Truro Redannick	24
6	Penryn West	16
7	Carharrack, Gwennap and St Day	10
8	Threemilestone and Gloweth	10
9	Chacewater, Kenwyn and Baldhu	6
10	Feock and Playing Place	3
11	Mabe, Perranarworthal and St Gluvias	1

Which road in Truro has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Truro with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Newham Road.